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DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research)
DRIVER II, the sequel to IST-FP6 DRIVER project, is an EU 7FP "e-Infrastructure - Capacity Programme" cofunded project. It involves 12 partners from 10 European countries. It aims at extending geographically the European Repository Infrastructure created by its predecessor while putting it into production. Currently, this e-Infrastructure is composed by more than 140 archives coming from 20 EU Countries which contain approximately 700.000 documents. From the technological point of view, DRIVER is implemented following a Service Oriented Architecture paradigm. It offers rich functionality for structuring, maintaining and serving content, spanning from simple documents up to enhanced ones, i.e. complex entities with bindings to source information. A DRIVER application is now available on the production infrastructure. This application gives access to the entire information space available through the infrastructure and offers personalized information retrieval facilities. Other applications, activated on the same infrastructure, are under construction.
D4Science and DRIVER II share two major partners, namely CNR-ISTI and NKUA. The effective collaboration covers different aspects:
Technology
Despite the fact that DRIVER II and D4Science build on different technological frameworks, the former one being a generic SOA infrastructure, the latter being based on OGSA principles, there are several areas where the two projects share technological interests. Both have to work around common technological issues and build concepts that will capture the new trends of the entire Knowledge Management domain upon which they act. Up to the recent past, the direct exchange of code artifacts has been difficult due to differences in the technological and implementation roadmaps followed by the two projects. However this gap is currently being gradually bridged with various moves from two sides, such as adoption of the JAVA platform also in the DRIVER project, and D4Science building bridges for gCube to other systems.
Service
The nature of the resources available in the DRIVER and D4Science Infrastructure is different, yet the two infrastructures share common challenges. Most importantly, they have to identify the procedures and policies that are required to regulate the registration and sharing of data resources in this new type of infrastructures. Both projects also have to design and develop services for managing and monitoring the infrastructure. These are areas where the two projects plan to strictly collaborate.
Networking
DRIVER II and D4Science also collaborate in networking activities, participating in common events and mutually promoting each other’s work. D4Science also closely follows the activity dedicated to the definition of as sustainable model based on the DRIVER Confederation.
The collaboration is tight and includes regular physical cross-team meetings internal to the CNR and NKUA and more formal, cross-organizational ones, in a sparser schedule. Topics that are discussed in these meetings include Resource Management, Information Model, Content Management, Enhanced publications / Live documents / Complex Documents concepts, mechanisms such as Indexing and ResultSets etc., all of which mutually influence implementation.
Submitted by SiteAdminUser on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 13:44.
